Talk me out of it: Mustang GT 5.0

[e30e]

it impresses me how many people say mustang, i mean with all respect to mustang etc, but it is still poor engineering overall and not even close to what BMW does.

135 all the way.

my 2 cents

You must not know about all the n54/n55 motor issues they have plus I can almost guarantee the rear end of the BMW will require new bushings and potential sheet metal way before the ford will.

[Kershaw]

i'd take the mustang 5.0 over a lot of cars right now. if i were to trade my rx8 in for anything less than a porsche cayman s it'd be a mustang 5.0.

[SUICIDE109]

http://centralmich.craigslist.org/cto/2722164917.html

Buy this, put your M42 in it and buy a bigger engine for your E30 and you'll make out perfectly. All it really needs is paint...

[brutus87]

Ford mustang.
They've come a long way.

[Cabriolet]

granted the mustang has come light years. but so was the model T over a horse. i could never look out my window at that car. its ugly and bloated. the interior feels cheap and looks cheap. save the money and buy a year or two old merc c250.

[gkobez]

The two aren't really comparable, but 135i is like driving a womans hand bag, and the Mustang is said to be really good by just about everybody who has driven one. Also 135i isn't some kind of super fancy build quality car, by german standards its a cheaper car.

[325ix]

granted the mustang has come light years. but so was the model T over a horse. i could never look out my window at that car. its ugly and bloated. the interior feels cheap and looks cheap. save the money and buy a year or two old merc c250.

Yeah, because the 135 isn't a bloated pile of metal. It is also the sexiest thing to ever walk the planet earth.

it impresses me how many people say mustang, i mean with all respect to mustang etc, but it is still poor engineering overall and not even close to what BMW does.

135 all the way.

my 2 cents

Yeah, real poor engineering, it keeps up with a car twice it's cost. It must have been designed and built by dogs.

[TheTacoMan]

Anybody can put a big v8 in a car to make it fast, Im glad they made an effort to make it handle better but at the end of the day it is still a heavy muscle car :-|

[Holland]

Anybody can put a big v8 in a car to make it fast, Im glad they made an effort to make it handle better but at the end of the day it is still a heavy muscle car :-|

Lol I thought you were talking about the E92 M3 for a minute there.

[Nsquared97]

Anybody can put a big v8 in a car to make it fast, Im glad they made an effort to make it handle better but at the end of the day it is still a heavy muscle car :-|

The M3 weighs almost exactly the same...? And barely handles any better?

[JasonC]

Anybody can put a big v8 in a car to make it fast, Im glad they made an effort to make it handle better but at the end of the day it is still a heavy muscle car :-|

News flash! Mustangs have never been muscle cars.

[pandaboo911]

1. Buy mustang
2. Swap 5.0 into e30
3. ????
4. Profit

[Dave McLaren]

My wife does not see me in one though - she wants me to just swap a big motor in the 318is, I feel bad taking the perfectly running heart out of my 318 with out 110k miles on it though.

Wait, what? Whatever you do, just make sure to keep the wife.

I voted for the 'stang.

[pureaudio]

Doesn't matter how much faster or better it handles, you really want to step into a Mustang everyday when you could be getting into the 135i?

To me, Mustangs will always and forever be what rednecks get for their trashy wives to drive.

[mkcman17]

don't shoot me here, but for a new daily i'd get a WRX. comparably priced, practical, quick...and i like how they drive.

maybe it's not grown-up enough for some, but that's not my game.